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why do i suddenly feel the need to purge my bowels?

do i for ONE second believe he's on a humanitarian mission? FUCK NO. well if you consider one's own interests (as in greed, money, power, etc) humanitarian, then i MAY be wrong

Ex-Congressman in Libya to ‘Help’ Once Proposed Arming Gadhafi

By Noah Shachtman

Former Congressman Curt Weldon traveled repeatedly to Libya during the last decade, becoming so close with the Gadhafi regime that the firm Weldon worked for even floated the idea of selling arms to Tripoli.
So now that Gadhafi is under assault from NATO airstrikes and rebel ground troops, it should come as no surprise that Weldon is back in Libya, “to try to help negotiate a political settlement with Gadhafi and family,” according to CNN.
And while Weldon’s there, the controversial former vice chair of the House Armed Services Committee is looking to do a little image repolishing for himself.
It wasn’t long ago — April, 2008, to be exact — that Weldon was boasting in a report that he had become the “1st non-Libyan Board Member of the Ghadaffi Foundation.”...................

Weldon: I'm not in Libya to undermine Obama

Posted by Ben Plesser   
Former congressman Curt Weldon is expected to meet with Muammar Qaddafi in Libya sometime this week, and says he plans to ask the embattled leader to step aside.
Weldon was part of a congressional delegation to Libya in 2004 and has visited the country several times. His current visit is a private mission at the invitation of the Qaddafi government, but with the knowledge of the White House and members of congress, Weldon told CBS News producer Ben Plesser and a reporter from the Wall Street Journal.
Sitting in the lobby of his hotel in Tripoli Wednesday, the former congressman seemed aware of the fact that his visit to Libya, and his meeting with Muammar Qaddafi would draw criticism back home..............

Former U.S. Congressman Curt Weldon speaks with CBS News, April 6, 2011, in Tripoli, Libya.

(Credit: CBS)

Who Is Curt Weldon and Why Is He Meeting Gadhafi Again Today? - Lisa Flam

Former U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon has met with Moammar Gadhafi several times before, and he'll meet face-to-face with the Libyan leader again.

Weldon, a Republican from Pennsylvania, met today with Gadhafi's chief of staff in Tripoli and is scheduled to talk to the leader himself later today, New York's WPIX-TV reported from Libya.

Writing in today's New York Times, Weldon said he's leading a private delegation to Libya and is hoping to persuade Gadhafi to "step aside."

"First, we must engage face-to-face with Colonel [Gadhafi] and persuade him to leave, as my delegation hopes to do," Weldon wrote. "I've met him enough times to know that it will be very hard to simply bomb him into submission............

this is all beyond funny now

this is the stuff that DOES make those on the edge already, jump 

Glenn Beck suggests Soros connected with Japan disaster, NZ earthquake, Ivory Coast civil war, Hamas, a union mtg, and the shooting of a poet's son in Mexico

by John Aravosis  

Actually, my title doesn't do this justice. He's claiming that all the issues are related to each other - they're not "isolated incidents."

The guy is nuts, or the biggest con man out there nowadays.  You have to wonder whether his apocalyptic meanderings are part of the reason Fox isn't renewing his contract.  Did Fox worry that some nutjob, convinced the world was going to end, might eventually do something crazy?  Beck already has the inspiration of one violent nutjob, at least, under his belt, according to Media Matters..................

wtf?

sarevil's tv show was GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED?
 from above the chatter -

Sarah Palin Took a Government Handout and Bristol Palin Raked It In

Did you know that Sarah Palin's TV reality show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska,"was government subsidized?" Yup, Palin's reality show took advantage of state tax credits that Palin herself created as Governor in 2008.

Palin's reality show received a $1.2 million subsidy from the state. Under a state subsidy created by the Legislature in 2008 and signed into law by Palin, Alaska allows film and TV producers to recover 30 percent or more of the money they spend on filming in the state............

 

over at

a polar bear's tale - they see violets. LOTS of violets

click the link above to see 'em all


Henry Meynell Rheam: 'Violets', 1904
link

somebody has to watch 'em

after all, they MAY try to wear pants


supervising women workers

and NOW for something COMPLETELY different

The Assize of Nuisance

 

 

 

 

Alice Wade, who lived in 14th Century London, could not countenance the smell of her own poo.

In an era when many of her fellow citizens relieved themselves in chamber pots and surreptitiously tipped the stinking contents out the window, she had a toilet in its own small room.
But 700 years ago, a toilet was a hole cut in a wooden platform over a cesspool. The smells that emanated were most foul.
So she rigged up a wooden pipe that connected her toilet to a rainwater gutter that flushed a nearby public latrine.....................

 

dali (and heads)

via the most wonderful bits&bites

what's wrong with this picture?

Jerry Falwell-Founded Liberty University Gets Half a Billion in Federal Aid, Teaches Creationism

By PZ Myers | Sourced from Pharyngula 

Wait—Liberty University gets half a billion dollars a year in federal aid? And they have almost 50,000 students? I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of minds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

I looked a little further and discovered, though, that Liberty is actually a mid-sized private college with an on-campus enrollment of about 12,000 — they're sucking in all that money because they're deeply involved in that lucrative on-line 'education' game, where they shuffle students through a series of web pages and declare them S-M-R-T, smart. I was made suspicious when I looked at their list of faculty in chemistry and biology and was surprised to see that their total number of chemistry/biology faculty is 21, while my university has a total combined chemistry and biology faculty of 15…for a student body of fewer than 2,000........................

update on eman al-obeidy

 my personal vote for hero of 2011

Alleged rape victim in Libya tells mother of ordeal, threat
(CNN) -- Eman al-Obeidy, the woman who claims forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi raped her, spoke Tuesday with her mother, who has come to her defense, for the first time since her ordeal began.
Al-Obeidy told Aisha Ahmad that a court employee pulled a weapon on her when she went to a courthouse.
Al-Obeidy, who burst into a Tripoli hotel last month to tell her harrowing story to journalists, told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an emotional phone interview that the administrative court employee threatened her life.............

Alleged Libyan Rape Victim Eman al-Obeidy On CNN: ‘I Refused To Be Silent’
by Mark Joyella

In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Eman al-Obeidy, the woman whose story of brutal sexual assault at the hands of Muammar Gaddafi’s soldiers, said she was told she would be forced to retract her accusations on Libyan state TV. She said she was told to change her story, saying it wasn’t Libyan soldiers who abducted and raped her, but members of the revolution. She would not cooperate. “I refused to be silent,” she said.

Asked how she was treated in captivity, al-Obeidy said “they cursed at me, and told me I was a traitor, because I spoke the truth.”..........

what?????????????????

W H A T ?????????????????????

tell us what you REALLY feel about people of color why don't cha

Fringe conservative: Welfare makes African Americans ‘rut like rabbits’
By Eric W. Dolan

The United States should abandon all welfare programs because they have led to the destruction of marriage and harm black children, according to the Director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at the American Family Association (AFA).

"We have spent over $16 trillion fighting the war on poverty, and it’s time to run up the white flag of surrender," Bryan Fischer said in blog post on the AFA's website. "Poverty has won."

Fischer added that welfare had destroyed the African-American family by providing incentives for fornication instead of marriage. "It’s no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits," he wrote...................

 

 

this is quite the headline

and the policy as well!

me? i would have been MORTIFIED to take money from an abstinence organization AFTER I DID THE DIRTY WITH MY BOO AND THEN HAD A BABY OUT OF WEBLOCK! (but not her i guess)

Abstinence foundation paid Bristol Palin $262K, spent little on prevention programs

By Eric W. Dolan

Tax documents reveal that an anti-teen pregnancy foundation paid Bristol Palin seven times what it spent on actual teen pregnancy prevention programs.
Bristol Palin, the 20-year-old daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, was appointed as a teen ambassador for the Candie's Foundation in 2009. Actresses Jenny McCarthy and Hayden Panettiere have also served as ambassadors for the foundation.................

we are sluts, we are whores, we are tramps

we are the ACTUAL devil. it is our fault. it's always been our fault and always will.

we are evil. we are unclean. we tempt. once again we are evil incarnate.

if you think i believe in this shite for one hot second you are more sick than the people responsible for this VILE PIECE OF CRAP VIDEO:

via christian nightmares

p.s. do you want us to don our burquas now?

mother jones has more on the "u" word

Florida Bill Will Force Women to Look at Their [Redacted]

By Kate Sheppard 

Florida lawmakers apparently aren't allowed to say the word "uterus" on the House floor. But next week those same lawmakers will be considering legislation that will force Florida women to look at their you-know-whats before they can obtain an abortion.

The bill in question, HB 1127, would make Florida women seeking abortions subject to both an ultrasound and a doctor's detailed description of what's in there.  I'm guessing the doctor might even be forced to—gasp!—use the word "uterus" as he or she performs the ultrasound.

"How do you ban the word 'uterus' at the same time you're debating a bill that would force women to look at a picture of their uterus?" asks Stephanie Kunkel, executive director of the Florida Association of Planned Parenthood Affiliates..............

Photo by massdistraction, via Flickr.

do you know who is JUST as dangerous (if not more so)

than radical (fanatical) muslims?

RADICAL, FANATICAL CHRISTIANS. you know the ones that burn korans and cause OUR men and women to be killed. because their god is better than everyone else's god

just sayin'................

what a bag o' dicks (notice how often i've had to say that of late?)

yet ANOTHER sterling example of how re-PUG-na-CANTS are 'saving' the country money

After Maine’s governor removes labor mural, feds demand their money back

By Stephen C. Webster

Whoops: The governor of Maine's decision to remove a pro-labor mural from the state's Department of Labor may cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars, all because he wanted to "send a message."

Apparently unknown to Maine's recently elected Republican governor, the mural targeted by his ire was initially paid for by a federal grant -- the terms of which he violated by having it removed.

And now, according to the Associated Press, the U.S. Department of Labor has officially demanded reimbursement.

The grant, awarded in 2008 to pay for the 37-foot-long mural, fulfilled 63 percent of the $60,000 historical art project...............

the tea party (the REAL one). listen (and watch) it's good

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strollin'

via

i have been wearing

snoods of late. i came across this picture and a couple of others on the most wonderful a polar bear's tale

Bernardino Luini (ca. 1480/82-1532)

please check 'em ALL out

extreme murals at dark roasted blend

put you in a dress and be modest

i wonder if this dude is married? if not, HE'S MINE BABES, ALL FUCKING MINE




via the ever wonderful christian nightmares

poor poor sean.

having to get by on $174,000 (PLUS GOVERNMENT BENEFITS)
i'm wellin' up here - someone, somewhere, get me a tissue! NOW

GOPers Demand Sean Duffy Salary Tape Be Pulled From The Internet (VIDEO)

Evan McMorris-Santoro 

First the Republican Party in Polk County, Wisconsin, pulled the tape of Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) fretting about making ends meet on his $174,000 a year salary from its own website. Now they want it gone from the whole Internet.

For a couple hours, the local county GOP was successful. But we've put an excerpt of the video back up.

A day after TPM posted the video we obtained of Duffy talking about his salary at a Polk County town hall meeting earlier this year, the Polk County GOP contacted the video provider we used to host the video, Blip.tv, and demanded the video be taken down................

these people and by these people you all know i mean

rePUGnaCANTS make me fucking sick

i cannot stress enough, ONCE BORN THEY DON'T GIVE TWO SHITES ABOUT YOU. really

Indiana lawmaker: Women will lie about rape to get abortion exemption

By David Edwards

Indiana Republicans vote down rape exception, calling it a 'giant loophole'

Republican Indiana state Rep. Eric Turner insisted this week that women will pretend to be raped just to get around proposed abortion laws.
Turner legislation, HB 1210, would impose some of the strictest restrictions on abortion in the country. Under his bill, abortions after 20 weeks would be illegal in Indiana. Abortions are currently illegal after around 24 weeks, when some say the fetus becomes viable life.
State Rep. Gail Riecken (D) offered an amendment Tuesday that would create an exemption for women who are victims of rape or incest. The amendment would have also exempted women whose life was threatened by their pregnancy.............

 

please don't have anything to do with go daddy dot com

not just because of their sexist commercials but because their ceo is a piece o' steamin' shite

GoDaddy CEO videotapes himself killing an elephant

by Nicholas Carlson
This year, GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons went on an African vacation and shot an elephant. He recorded the whole thing on video............



save the elephants

 

WHAT????????????????????

the earth was created in a handful of days, it's only a few thousand  years old (say five or six or perhaps seven), humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and ONCE AGAIN, WOMEN HAVE DIRTY BODY PARTS

Florida Republicans upset Democrat said ‘uterus’ on state House floor
By David Edwards

For some Republican lawmakers in Florida, uterus is a dirty word.

During a debate over a bill that would prohibit governments from deducting union dues out of a worker's paycheck last week, Florida state Rep. state Rep. Scott Randolph (D) argued that Republicans seem to only be against regulations when it comes to big business.

In his speech on the state House floor, Randolph even suggested that his wife could "incorporate her uterus" if it would stop the GOP from passing more restrictive abortion laws.

Republican leadership scolded the Democratic congressman, telling him that talk about body parts was unwelcome............

 now comes the REALLY good part; 

..........He said Republicans told him they were concerned about young pages hearing the word...........................

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(uh oh, there's a recall on THIS uturus pic from i heart guts )

verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry interesting

AT&T’s secret f*cking loophole: If you want out of an Internet contract, just curse
By Stephen C. Webster
With telecom giant AT&T rolling out limitations and additional fees on how much information its Internet users can access, it seems the company is bracing for an influx of anger.
In a little-noticed contract tweak recently, AT&T customer service representatives have been empowered to cancel the contract of any customers who behave in an abusive manner towards them.
In other words, when those top two percent of users get massive bandwidth bills at the end of May, and they call in with full-bore nerd rage, AT&T will have an easy solution: cut them off entirely, and waive the cancellation fee.
But in perhaps an unintended consequence of this move, that would also allow disgruntled users to wriggle out of their contract with what The L.A. Times called "some strategic cussing.".......